Joseph Kast

Online Programs Project ManagerInstitute for Humane Studies

Joseph Kast is a video producer for Learn Liberty. Previously he worked in education, teaching in Thailand, South Korea, and Honduras. He studied film and playwriting at Webster University in St Louis, and received his graduate degree at GWU’s Graduate School of Political Management.

Westworld is first and foremost a depiction of the corrosive nature of total power — an illustration of Lord Acton’s quote that “absolute power corrupts absolutely” — as seen through the character of Dr. Robert Ford.

While the singing Christmas turds of seasons past will always be funny, it is South Park’s growing, full-throated defense of liberal values like free expression, privacy, anti-authoritarianism, and individualism that will forge its larger legacy.